Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-11
THE IHE&ICiN ENPO>ITION IN LON
Don, THIS YEAR

" Nl'A nay l~i- 1851. IL Will NbItNiNN va q
display of American agricultural and man
ufactured products. We are officially in
/ formed by Mr.. John Gilmer Speed, of New
York. the secretary of the exhibition, that
''the advance in art and science, the i'm
proyements in machinery and the methods
of agriculture, the natural products of the
soil-everything in fact that demonstrates
the variety and magnitude Of our industrial
resources and the skill and ingenuity of
our artisans, will find an appropriate place
IN the great picture:it will I've an eNhibi-
tIon calculated To arouse fresh interest
among the capitalists and merchants of the
Old World, bring them face to face with
progressive events that are new and sug-
geStive. and thus stimulate the export trade
of the United States. and the further de-
yelopment of their natural wealth"
The American Exhibition association was.
a Year or two ago. organized under the pro-
visions OF English laws: a site containing
twenty-three acres in the heart of London.
reached by three principal railways. was
leased at Il nominal rate, and arrangements
made for the construction OF a mammoth
and suitable building, work on which
has made good progress. The eutire
frame work of these buildings ''is composed
of steel rails such as are used on railways.
and being braced back TO back with the +
side on the exterior. then covered with
glass and corrugated iron. they constitute
unique fire proof editice that is not only
cheaply and quickly erected, but becomes
marketable again when taken down"
We are informed that, on this side of the
Atlantic, the directors are busy in making
allotments of space to those who have ap-
piled. Arrangements have been made with
steamship companies for the transportation
of goods direct TO the door of the exhibition
building: and regulations have been pre-
pared which furnish to the intending ex-
hibitors all desirable information on the
subject. The latter may be had from the
main offices, 702 Chestnut street. Philadel-
phia, or from Mr.. John Gilmer Speed, sec
retary of the exhibition, Stewart building,
New York.
What Englishmen, Americans and other
IN iabltantS of the earth will see at the ex-
hhition may be imagined from the fol
lowing:
Looking around the twenty-three acres.
their eyes will rest on the wonders of the
Yosemite and Yellowstone: the gigantic
fruit Of the Golden state; the human-like
autOmata that sweep the wheat fields of the
west; the mammoth vegetables that leave
holes in the ground big enough for cellars;
fossils with strange geological histories;
ores. minerals and precious stones from our
mountains: cotton passing from the field Ia
the fabric: the food We eat and fluids we
drink: the light that We burn and the heat
that warns us: the cradles we are rocked in /
and the cofinS We are buried in: the rolling
palaces IN which We span the continent and
the weapons which We use 10 shoot
buffalo and deer while Skimming across the
pTaiTieS-and these and a thousand other
things will be there 10 make the foreigner
feel As II he had been invited 10 a banquet
pt marVeiS. who can doubt that such an
exhibition will be of surprising interest,
or the exhibition United States Senator
Joseph L. Hawley. says in his paper, the
Hartford Conn Daify CoIrGnt:
IL is difficult 10 attribute motives to the |
London correspondents who are endeavOr- |
ing To belittle the proposed American exhi- |
ojtion and t0 ppevent its success. The ell |
terprise Is II no sense government affair. |
and asks for no appropriation. Eminent |
gentlemen in London and this country |
nave undertaken the wOrf. believing that |
the novelty of a strictly American eXhibi- |
lion in London during the jubilee year will |
attract hundreds of thousands of visitors. |
will be Of great value TO American indus
rIes and American commerce, and will |
also be profitable to the stock |
'"ders. The last SuppoSition is |
Dpen to doubt. for very few of the |
arge eNpositions have paid pecuniarily. |
But il i settled that the exhibition is 10
AXE place and that it will be well managed.
md all good Americans should feel patrI
'tic interest in its success. Ii was a shrewd (
business stroke to provide great amusem nj |
arena. in a corner of the spacious grounds
It kensington which are devoted 10 the eX-
iihitiOn. and to secure Buffalo Bills Wild |
Vest show a. a feature No other country
an furnish Just such an entertainment.
md il has proved itself 10 be exceedingly
attractive and profitable. Heretofore the
InglIShmanS ideas of American entertain
neniS have been confined 10 the cheap SOFT
4 negro minstrel shows. But this is a
mere annex TO the exhibition itself. which
an be made and ought Ia be made worthy
Is name.
In the Ohio senate, on Friday, Mr.. Hard
~. "a lI..l nm his injut resolution authnriz- |